Loopy Pro: Create music, your way.
What is Loopy Pro? — Loopy Pro is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive live looper, sampler, clip launcher and DAW for iPhone and iPad. At its core, it allows you to record and layer sounds in real-time to create complex musical arrangements. But it doesn’t stop there—Loopy Pro offers advanced tools to customize your workflow, build dynamic performance setups, and create a seamless connection between instruments, effects, and external gear.
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I throw Koala and Ableton Note on every device.. First thing I do..
Love all of the FAC apps too.. they sound gorgeous and they’re stunning to look at.. 😁
These are some great suggestions.
I like the idea of gadget on the go, which seems to be a more popular option than I would have thought.
Koala does seem built around a phone interface, and the new AUv3 support makes it all the better.
@gregsmith are those loopy templates public? They’re gorgeous.
@jwmmakerofmusic you don’t need to apologize for long form posts - I always like a good read. I’ll take an essay, bullet points, or a sentence for good insight.
@evenSteven I do need to figure out headphones. I’ve got an irig Pro Duo I could plug in for headphones, but that’s not the must portable phone solution (though not the worst unless the USB-C port is as jiggly as lightning).
I’ve never uploaded it anywhere but here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IRPiuOtPOMmBO1yLZOXz8INmoI0SnRyR/view?usp=drivesdk
Should be relatively easy to figure out if you know Loopy Pro
These are some great suggestions. I like the idea of gadget on the go.
@gregsmith are those loopy templates public? They’re gorgeous.
The camera quality is great, but I’m way more impressed with the dedicated camera button/slider. It’s very responsive. A dedicated action button is nice - I’ve missed the tactility of a home button so the more buttons the better IMO.
Notes on using the phone for music apps:
The extra screen real estate afforded by the Pro Max makes everything much more usable. The extra weight I’m not sure about yet - this thing is heavy, especially with the case on. That could be somewhat of a plus though since it means my hands aren’t as cramped together.
Battery life is great, again being a Max is a plus there.
Having a working port is great, and it being USB-C is the real winner. Not having to pull out the beast that is my 13” M2 iPad Pro (Big Bertha) to plug in my irig is so convenient. Using guitar fx is usually a lot better on something this size. It’s not so small that I can’t be precise, and not so big that it’s clunky.
Koala + Brusfri for recording acoustic guitar is a fantastic combo. That’s been my favorite thing to run.
I just plugged the irig in for the first time yesterday to see how it’s working but haven’t gotten to do that much with it yet. I keep pulling up AUM because it’s what I’m familiar with. I’m slowly playing with SAND Sequencer to familiarize myself with it now that they’ve added audio tracks.
Overall the phone hasn’t blown me away yet for day to day usage outside of music, but that’s a sign to me that iOS 26 has been pretty solid and had kept my iPhone 12 Pro feeling modern. Sure, it had a cracked back, a cracked camera, a broken port (thank god for MagSafe), and a scuffed up screen but it was zippy and got a lot done wirelessly.
I’d like to append this with “What are your favorite Auv3 apps to use with IPad”?
I've gone back to trying my phone for music. Just keeping it simple with Xequence2-->AUM. Loading AUM with instrument and FX apps and seeing what happens...
I use everything that is not iPad-only…from AUM to Battalion. Switching from the ol’ tiny SE 3 to a 17e helped, I’m alright with the small format.
Elastic Drums, BAM
And favorites mentioned above, FLSM, Note, Nanoloop, and the new one mentioned above, Naive Tracker.
No particular order
For me the UI/controls can’t be tiny, making music with favorite ipad apps on iPhone is like making ships in bottles. PronMax would help but $, and they don’t fit in my pockets
I really can't make music on my iphone 12, the screen is too small and my eyes are too tired, lol. I use the Voice memo app to recorder some "bum chaka chaka bum" with my voice when i have some groove or rythm in my mind
It may not help the conversation to say Nanostudio 2, since that's no longer available, but perhaps a bit more pertinent is the workflow. Everyone has a different situation, but I find two different opportunities with my iPhone: sessions (one hour +) or time fillers (10-20 min or so). Sessions are when I have the time (and feel the creative flow) to get into composing and make progress. Time Fillers are generally used to create presets which will be used later, and possibly a riff or chord progression that seems nice with the new preset. I hate stopping the flow of a session to create a sound, so in this way my time fillers help support the sessions. Nanostudio 2 works great for all of these. The workflow I found helpful was to “always” start something on the iPhone and later move it to iPad for firther development with iPad-only apps. Dates on the names of projects help the organization too. In this way when I sit down at home for a 1-2 hour + session I don’t have a just a “blank page” staring at me. I have new projects and new presets AirDropped from the iPhone. For me using the workflow of using the iPhone to support the iPad works really well, and I think should work with whatever Universal apps one finds most useful.
I used NS1 on the iPhone. It was insane what you could do with one hand / thumb on an iPhone 4S
I was hoping I could get NS2 working, but couldn’t get it loaded up. That workflow is pretty much what I’d want, probably more for some guitar chains or synth sound design.
I’ve posted in the Koala tips thread that I hoped that would be a solution to guitar sketches, but you can’t seem to preview a wet guitar signal live. To use auv3 effects, you’d have to record dry guitar to a pad and route that to an fx bus. There’s workarounds by bringing in another host to route audio via AudioPipeline, loading Koala as a plugin, or IAA. I was hoping it would be an elegant “plug in my interface, pull up a template, and hit a pad to record” but adding multiple hosts is pretty clunky.
All good then, mate.
Yeah, Gadget on the go seems popular, but for me, the interface is way too small even on my Pro Max, lol. Ymmv. 
A bit off topic, but did you end up liking your iPad mini? I feel like you got one not too long ago.
I still use my iPad Mini from time to time, but only because I swore I'd never use another iPhone again last summer. 😂 Then I used my Mini for a while, but realized it was a bit cumbersome to take along with me everywhere like I can my Pro Max 16. So my Mini hasn't gotten used for a bit of time. The main iPad I use is my M3 Air, which I intend to use as my next sheet music reader once my 2017 12.9" Pro craps out on me.
Hey Fizzy, I was thinking earlier that your use case is something Loopy Pro could definitely do. This guy has dozens of helpful YT videos about playing guitar through an interface into LP: https://youtube.com/@loopwithjack?si=vxJBWgp8l8Px-1N4
I see you've also asked in the Sand thread, and I'll be interested to hear what they say. I bought the full version on sale last week and upgraded to Audio tracks, so I might be doing some of that myself.
I do think Loopy Pro would probably do what I need, and I really have tried a few times to get along with it. It still hasn’t clicked with me, but it might be worth another go. Curious, @wim i mentioned qwerty keyboard mapping in the Koala thread - is that an option in Loopy Pro?
For context to others, I was setting this numpad up to control pads on Koala but ran into the issue of not being able to route live audio through a wet signal without recording it dry first. No a big deal that Koala can’t preview wet signal in, SAND can preview wet signal but I don’t think it has qwerty, and if I run Koala in AUM I can’t use the numpad.
Loopy does have qwerty keyboard support, but whether it can be configured to specifically work with Koala in the way you want, I can't say.
What you can do is play notes, and also "learn" keystrokes to do things just as you would MIDI notes. I'm not sure how well that maps to what you want to do though.
Typing keyboard support in any iOS host is subject to some limitations. iOS generally only sends keystrokes to the window that has focus. So, for instance, if you're happily controlling a plugin with the keyboard, but then interact with another plugin window ... you usually lose the focus until you bring the original window to the foreground again. Loopy has some clever things up its sleeve to make that a bit better, but there will always be some gotchas with the typing keyboard.
So, I doubt you can do all that you like, as consistently as you like, with a typing keyboard and Koala in any host.
Oh I meant could I cut out Koala and just use qwerty to activate donuts in loooy.
Yes.